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How to use soberly in a sentence

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As the next morning dawned over the castle, hardened soldiers soberly spoke of yesterday's battle.
On his way out, he met Baldwin dressed soberly in a black frock coat and pantaloons.
If we're not prepared to face up soberly to the truth, how the can we expect them to do so?
Although soberly written, this biography of the dictator bristles with moral indignation.
Their arms folded across their chests, they stare soberly at what one assumes is the person taking the picture.
The British representatives at the conference were more soberly dressed in formal morning dress.
The shipping forecast was soberly predicting the arrival of force nine winds in Thames-Dover-Wight.
The commercial opens on a dreary winter's night with a family soberly sipping their watery soup.
Anne gasped at such a rude phrase, but before she could chase after him in a fury, a soberly clad, bewigged gentleman approached her friend.
She gives me a bear hug and then she's off, dressed soberly now in black and denim.
But such trust is scarcely reconcilable with Kant's soberly realistic description of the politics of his own time.
Thus, while we casually mock the lunacies of the past, some people, notably mainstream journalists, nod soberly at the lunacies of the present.
When he returned to painting, it was in the soberly naturalistic style associated with the Euston Road School.
He that televiewers are too impulsive, but the professional jury can estimate the future commercial success of acting participants more soberly.
He was neatly but soberly attired in a deep black afternoon suit, a modest topper set at a slight angle on his thinning gray hair.
The soberly dressed singers play many 'roles', if you will, but they essentially represent a civilization in decay.
The thrushes are soberly clothed, omnivorous birds, and occur in all regions of the world save New Zealand.
Acting most soberly, the government co-operated with the US authorities, regardless of the fact that it was pressurised.
He visits an exhibition of Romanic art under the Capetian dynasty in the Louvre museum in Paris, finding it spellbinding, if a touch too soberly presented.
Mr. Winner held out to me a rectangular package soberly wrapped in a purple-coloured gift wrap with fine golden lines.
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So Agnes went rather soberly down the back yard paths to the end of the chicken run.
Wilson stared soberly at this school, at the colossus he had helped to create.
He answered it, lifted his sombrero and rode soberly towards the Granados corrals, three miles across the valley.
But she accepted her riches soberly, and did not fret that they must be so hoarded.
Here stood two Steinway grand pianos, tail to tail, their dark polished cases shining soberly in the pale light of November.
The only one who walked pretty soberly was the head-master, who had to uphold his dignity.
The docile, uncouth, buff-colored beasts were soberly chewing their cuds, and resting after their long and weary journey.
In Pride and Prejudice he famously transmuted the soberly clad Mr Darcy into a hunk of animal magnetism in a wet shirt.
So when I ask for hymn-tunes, he smiles soberly and complies.
The paper went the rounds and was soberly signed by each girl in turn.
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
The second year began rather soberly, for their prospects did not brighten, and Aunt March died suddenly.
Ina had sailed in by this time, and Ernestine followed more soberly.
In this respect they do not think soberly, but extravagantly.
The next morning the old horse was found without his saddle, and with the bridle under his feet, soberly cropping the grass at his master's gate.
As he nodded, soberly, she dropped the veil and restored her cap.
He and mahon prowled soberly about hatches and ventilators, sniffing.
But at length all the past night's events soberly recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to the comical predicament.
They talked, a little soberly, of thrift, and of their misspent years.
Clare once really and soberly tried to persuade me that it was my duty, with my weak health, and all I suffer, to let Mammy go back, and take somebody else in her place.
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